Want to write closed source software? Pay for QT just like you do with your software tools in the win-32 world
It's hard to see how Trolltech could have done more for the community and remained a financial success. But just for a moment consider if the leading implementation of X11 was also under a dual GPL/commercial license. Would you - writing proprietary code - put forward the same argument and stump up another $1500 per seat, or would you look for an alternative (maybe crappier) X library? Depends on your budget, I guess, but it would raise another real barrier to 'mainstream' adoption of the UNIX desktop.
QT/KDE is great (and I use it exclusively myself), but while it's under its current license I'd hate for it to be SO great that GNOME dies off completely.
They look like text, they sound like text (and CVS autodetects them as text), but VS 6 barfs all over itself if it doesn't have CRLF line endings.
Stupid, isn't it? Under Cygwin, try 'mounting' your development directory in text mode ('mount -t'). I have managed to make that work in the past. Failing that, use the unix2dos command on your patches or.ds{p,w} files.
Creates a *ton* of files in projects created. I'd expect a project file, full stop.
Ever used autoconf/automake/libtool? Holy crap! Now that's a lot of files...
In the same token, there are plenty of completely and totally clueless users of Linux.... I'm talking about people who actually refer to their computer as a "hard drive" or a "modem". You'll often find these types sitting on Mandrake or Red Hat boxes, not to disparage either distro, nor their users.
I have never met nor heard of such people, and I strongly suspect you just invented them. But if they did exist, it would be a great indicator of how far Linux has come for the average user.
Admirable though this sentiment is, I can't help but wonder if it is being opined by someone who has never felt real hunger.
Me? Given the choice between dying honest and living in guilt, I'd choose to live in guilt. There are very, very few things in this world worth dying for.
If SCO is the only company around that can keep you from starvation then you must have a pretty shitty skill set, no offence meant.
I agree with your sentiment, but you frame the question as "bad company vs unemployment" when it's not like that. Even in the dog-eat-dog USA your kids are not going to starve. It's more likely to be a choice between a daddy your kids can respect, or the latest Playstation. If they cannot appreciate the correctness of your decision, take it as an opportinity to educate them in something that actually matters.
Good of you to help, but it's no use. I just created a new user to make sure it's not a stale config issue... regardless of the Mouse Peripheral setting, a single click always activates the target in any of the List views. Shift-click and Ctrl-click work as expected, but they're not always what I want.
Perhaps it's the Mandrake package - but I've had this problem for several konq versions now.
In Konqueror (version 3.1.3), this only takes effect in the icon view. In any of the list views, you're stuck with single-click regardless of this setting.
This is the old "I can't be perfect so I won't bother trying to be good" argument. Yes there are shades of grey, and ideally you would be able to program the machine yourself. Failing that you have to trust the organisation who compiled the database. I know nothing about the corporate ethics database, but somehow I already trust it more than TV adverts and product labels.
Remember that full information is an essential part of a free market. Many peoples' purchasing habits are based on the vague assumption that all those products just "appear" on the shelves with no history behind them. It's just a lazy attempt to shed responsibility.
So yes, criticise the criteria by which companies are judged, but don't criticise this guy's attempt to actually DO SOMETHING about such a vast problem.
etcetera. What crap. We are not some defenceless suckling infants dependent on the generous charity of our employers, we are in a relationship of equals where we exchange labour for money. When did we forget that?
If pay & working conditions become unacceptable, we quit them. If our behaviour or our productivity is unacceptable, they quit us. It's not like we've taken wedding vows for chrissake.
If you are drawing more salary than you are worth, go ahead - keep your head down & milk it before your employer realises this. But if you give value for money then you do not need to act like the subservient partner. Jobs are tricky to find at the moment, but good employees are not easy to come by either.
Of course it's prudent to have somewhere else lined up before you quit. Just as it's wise for a company to find someone to cover for the guy they're about to fire. I just object to people acting like their employment contract is their most valued possession, rather than their skills, initiative & integrity. Have some confidence in yourselves!
Yeah, it must be a real burden to have parents who care that you're doing well and bother to find out how you're doing. You'd be much better off with inattentive parents that didn't give a shit about you.
Good point. Even if your parents are getting obsessive over this, the problem lies between you and them. Not with the report system.
you know, at one time there was vegitation in the artic circle
Er, there still is. The Arctic Circle is just the region inside which the sun does not set for at least one day per year. It is not the extent of the ice sheets. Parts of Canada, Alaska, Russia, and Norway are all within the arctic circle. Lots of vegetation there.
Secondly, where did all the ice from the ice age go?
They hate us because we respect individual freedoms...
Rarely have I heard such, er, misinformed regurgitated propaganda from a respeced member of the slashdot community. The lack of independent thought that such a statement betrays is truly shameful.
1) The OpenGL renderer is not as fast as the Direct3D renderer at this time.
That explains a lot... I bought UT2003 on the strength of the Linux port (and a fine job you did too) but on a low-spec platform the speed differential between OpenGL & Direct3D means I can only get a decent game under Windows. Not a huge problem, but let's hope the OpenGL renderer gets some attention...
Just be glad you're not in the UK. No Brit in their right mind would buy a Prescott - unreliable, bloated, and generates hot air like nothing you've ever seen.
Intel should really do their market research outside of the USA, too.
This is the first Slashdot story in over a year that has prompted me to actually register in order to post a response.
A programmer by trade, I grew up on the Acorn RISC machines. To see that the phrase "RISC OS" needs double-quotes makes me wince... My high school prizes were spent on books about ARM assembley language, and to this day x86 assembler seems retarded by comparison. I spent a whole summer working shit jobs in order to buy the RISC OS Programmer's Reference Manuals and Acorn's ANSI C compiler. I know it sounds like a typical Slashdot takeoff but it's true!
So I read this story with disgust and a sense of betrayal, it's like my own father has been had up for peddling drugs to schoolkids! Honestly Acorn (sorry, "Castle Technology Ltd" now), how low can you stoop? A lot of young British geeks owe their IT literacy to the company you once were, but if this story is true then you will find no sympathy from even your staunchest fans.
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I am tired of Chinas constant protectionist bs while forcing free trade on other countries
The scoundrels! I wonder where they got that trick from, eh?
Want to write closed source software? Pay for QT just like you do with your software tools in the win-32 world
It's hard to see how Trolltech could have done more for the community and remained a financial success. But just for a moment consider if the leading implementation of X11 was also under a dual GPL/commercial license. Would you - writing proprietary code - put forward the same argument and stump up another $1500 per seat, or would you look for an alternative (maybe crappier) X library? Depends on your budget, I guess, but it would raise another real barrier to 'mainstream' adoption of the UNIX desktop.
QT/KDE is great (and I use it exclusively myself), but while it's under its current license I'd hate for it to be SO great that GNOME dies off completely.
They look like text, they sound like text (and CVS autodetects them as text), but VS 6 barfs all over itself if it doesn't have CRLF line endings.
.ds{p,w} files.
Stupid, isn't it? Under Cygwin, try 'mounting' your development directory in text mode ('mount -t'). I have managed to make that work in the past. Failing that, use the unix2dos command on your patches or
Creates a *ton* of files in projects created. I'd expect a project file, full stop.
Ever used autoconf/automake/libtool? Holy crap! Now that's a lot of files...
I don't know about you, but if I were Mike Rowe, I'd MUCH rather have a bunch of nice stuff than a $10 domain name.
Me too. But instead he got MCSE training and a crappy XBox.
In the same token, there are plenty of completely and totally clueless users of Linux.... I'm talking about people who actually refer to their computer as a "hard drive" or a "modem". You'll often find these types sitting on Mandrake or Red Hat boxes, not to disparage either distro, nor their users.
I have never met nor heard of such people, and I strongly suspect you just invented them. But if they did exist, it would be a great indicator of how far Linux has come for the average user.
Here's hoping...
A friend of mine who spent time in post-war iraq says that much of the resistance is not Hussein-led, or even 'terrorist'-led, but because:
a) Iraqis are increasingly intolerant of the US occupation, and
b) The general population generally quite well-armed.
Of course the general population doesn't have rocket lauchers and explosive, so there must be more to the resistance than just that.
Admirable though this sentiment is, I can't help but wonder if it is being opined by someone who has never felt real hunger.
Me? Given the choice between dying honest and living in guilt, I'd choose to live in guilt. There are very, very few things in this world worth dying for.
If SCO is the only company around that can keep you from starvation then you must have a pretty shitty skill set, no offence meant.
I agree with your sentiment, but you frame the question as "bad company vs unemployment" when it's not like that. Even in the dog-eat-dog USA your kids are not going to starve. It's more likely to be a choice between a daddy your kids can respect, or the latest Playstation. If they cannot appreciate the correctness of your decision, take it as an opportinity to educate them in something that actually matters.
Good of you to help, but it's no use. I just created a new user to make sure it's not a stale config issue... regardless of the Mouse Peripheral setting, a single click always activates the target in any of the List views. Shift-click and Ctrl-click work as expected, but they're not always what I want.
Perhaps it's the Mandrake package - but I've had this problem for several konq versions now.
*shrug*
Thanks.
In Konqueror (version 3.1.3), this only takes effect in the icon view. In any of the list views, you're stuck with single-click regardless of this setting.
Bloody annoying it is too.
This is the old "I can't be perfect so I won't bother trying to be good" argument. Yes there are shades of grey, and ideally you would be able to program the machine yourself. Failing that you have to trust the organisation who compiled the database. I know nothing about the corporate ethics database, but somehow I already trust it more than TV adverts and product labels.
Remember that full information is an essential part of a free market. Many peoples' purchasing habits are based on the vague assumption that all those products just "appear" on the shelves with no history behind them. It's just a lazy attempt to shed responsibility.
So yes, criticise the criteria by which companies are judged, but don't criticise this guy's attempt to actually DO SOMETHING about such a vast problem.
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"You're lucky to have a job at all, be grateful"
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"Walk out & you'll be poor and destitute"
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"You need them more than they need you"
etcetera. What crap. We are not some defenceless suckling infants dependent on the generous charity of our employers, we are in a relationship of equals where we exchange labour for money. When did we forget that?If pay & working conditions become unacceptable, we quit them. If our behaviour or our productivity is unacceptable, they quit us. It's not like we've taken wedding vows for chrissake.
If you are drawing more salary than you are worth, go ahead - keep your head down & milk it before your employer realises this. But if you give value for money then you do not need to act like the subservient partner. Jobs are tricky to find at the moment, but good employees are not easy to come by either.
Of course it's prudent to have somewhere else lined up before you quit. Just as it's wise for a company to find someone to cover for the guy they're about to fire. I just object to people acting like their employment contract is their most valued possession, rather than their skills, initiative & integrity. Have some confidence in yourselves!
preventing users from clogging up PC's with dancing gorillas and other crap.
You mean the ones shouting "Developers! Developers! Developers!"... I wish those damn gorillas would leave me alone.
You aren't charged for the cost of AOL cd delivery, so it's not the same as spam.
I don't know about you, but here in the UK our businesses pay for waste disposal by the sackfull. It's not cheap either.
My business pays out more for physical spam than for electronic spam, and we probably get typical amounts of each.
The Triumph Thunderbird is a lovely old English motorcycle. My father has one - they're beautiful!
Photo here...
So Minotaur has the right idea at least!
Yeah, it must be a real burden to have parents who care that you're doing well and bother to find out how you're doing. You'd be much better off with inattentive parents that didn't give a shit about you.
Good point. Even if your parents are getting obsessive over this, the problem lies between you and them. Not with the report system.
you know, at one time there was vegitation in the artic circle
Er, there still is. The Arctic Circle is just the region inside which the sun does not set for at least one day per year. It is not the extent of the ice sheets.
Parts of Canada, Alaska, Russia, and Norway are all within the arctic circle. Lots of vegetation there.
Secondly, where did all the ice from the ice age go?
Dude, are you for real? It melted. Sheesh...
They hate us because we respect individual freedoms...
Rarely have I heard such, er, misinformed regurgitated propaganda from a respeced member of the slashdot community. The lack of independent thought that such a statement betrays is truly shameful.
I.E. A system of showing ads based on companies' bid amounts??
Yes, I'd say that sums up IE fairly accurately!
I beleive they work based on patterns in the relative luminance of different parts of the iris (ie disregarding colour).
1) The OpenGL renderer is not as fast as the Direct3D renderer at this time.
That explains a lot... I bought UT2003 on the strength of the Linux port (and a fine job you did too) but on a low-spec platform the speed differential between OpenGL & Direct3D means I can only get a decent game under Windows. Not a huge problem, but let's hope the OpenGL renderer gets some attention...
Just be glad you're not in the UK. No Brit in their right mind would buy a Prescott - unreliable, bloated, and generates hot air like nothing you've ever seen.
Intel should really do their market research outside of the USA, too.
Defending the proposed legislation, Bush was quoted as saying:
I love democracy, I love the Republic. The power you give me I will lay down when this crisis has abated.
Ahhh, what a nice man.
This is the first Slashdot story in over a year that has prompted me to actually register in order to post a response.
A programmer by trade, I grew up on the Acorn RISC machines. To see that the phrase "RISC OS" needs double-quotes makes me wince... My high school prizes were spent on books about ARM assembley language, and to this day x86 assembler seems retarded by comparison. I spent a whole summer working shit jobs in order to buy the RISC OS Programmer's Reference Manuals and Acorn's ANSI C compiler. I know it sounds like a typical Slashdot takeoff but it's true!
So I read this story with disgust and a sense of betrayal, it's like my own father has been had up for peddling drugs to schoolkids! Honestly Acorn (sorry, "Castle Technology Ltd" now), how low can you stoop? A lot of young British geeks owe their IT literacy to the company you once were, but if this story is true then you will find no sympathy from even your staunchest fans.
I am really sad to see this happening.